[Lazarus] Timing of all compiler options on slow machines

[Lukasz Sokol]

On 20/08/13 14:13, Juha Manninen wrote:
> Attention waldo kitty and others with slow machines.
> 
[...]
> Now testing the reading of all options from FPC in the "Other" page
> of compiler options GUI: In this slow machine the reading still takes
> less than a second! Sometimes it takes only half a second. In waldo
> kitty's faster machine it took much longer. It means its Windows is
> badly screwed somehow. The reading happens now when the "Other" page
> is opened for the first time in a Lazarus session. It may be useless
> if the user does not click the "All options" or "Defines" buttons at
> all. It does not matter if the reading is fast. The benefit is that
> "All options" GUI opens slightly faster because options are read
> already. Anyway, I guess will move reading back to the all opts GUI
> window.
[...]

I for one would welcome having this info not as a 'message box' but
rather as a status bar information (like ones you get on certain dynamic
sites: this page was rendered in %d ms (options readout %d ms, render %d ms) )
(and an option to enable it or not, somewhere in Lazarus Tools).

Or have just the timing of reading fpc options added into the Help->About Lazarus?
(and so just the rendering of options timed on the compiler pages and
reported on the status bar)

My £0.02p.

-L.